{"id":2425,"date":"2012-03-30T20:49:33","date_gmt":"2012-03-31T03:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/?p=2425"},"modified":"2012-03-30T20:51:12","modified_gmt":"2012-03-31T03:51:12","slug":"californias-tax-wall-of-shame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/?p=2425","title":{"rendered":"California&#8217;s tax wall of shame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By law, the state of California maintains a website listing &#8220;the 500 largest delinquent sales and use tax accounts over $100,000.&#8221;  I came across this while doing some investigative research on California&#8217;s peculiar use tax. More on that in another post, perhaps.  <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boe.ca.gov\/cgi-bin\/deliq.cgi\">Top 500 Sales &#038; Use Tax Delinquencies in California<\/a> page has some fascinating content.  The largest delinquent account comes in at $18,433,917.  That&#8217;s right, &#8220;CALIF. TARGET ENTERPRISES INC.&#8221; owes the state of California more than 18 million dollars!  (That&#8217;s not Target the retailer, but someone else.)<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, we might wish that the state could collect on these accounts and possibly help reduce its deficit (which is about $13 billion, so CALIF. TARGET ENTERPRISES INC would only be able to contribute a drop in the bucket.  Still.).  And surely the state has some more proactive means for doing this than simply posting a passive website.  However:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Since the inception of this program, the Board of Equalization has received a total of $5.3 million from 40 qualifying taxpayers that came forward to take care of their debts: 27 through installment payment agreements and 13 by making payment in full.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So hey, maybe public shame works. For some.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By law, the state of California maintains a website listing &#8220;the 500 largest delinquent sales and use tax accounts over $100,000.&#8221; I came across this while doing some investigative research on California&#8217;s peculiar use tax. More on that in another post, perhaps. The Top 500 Sales &#038; Use Tax Delinquencies in California page has some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2425"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2431,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425\/revisions\/2431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}